Human optokinetic responses under quasi-open and closed loop conditions.

abstract：:A mathematical model for describing dynamic phenomena in the olfactory bulb is presented. The nature of attractors and the bifurcation sequences in terms of the lateral connection strength in the mitral layer are studied numerically. Chaotic activity has only been found in the case of strong excitatory coupling. Synap...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Erdi P,Gröbler T,Barna G,Kaski K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beck (1972, 1973) hypothesized that textural segmentation occurs strongly on the basis of simple properties such as brightness, color, size, and the slopes of contours and lines of the elemental descriptors of a texture or textural elements. The experiment reported supports the hypothesis that specific stimulus featur...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Beck J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a function-oriented model of the visual cortex. The model addresses an essential task of the visual system: to detect and represent objects. These are defined as sets, which reappear in the input with invariant inner relations. A network, incorporating an idealized description of anatomical and physiologica...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neven H,Aertsen A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of spatial frequency discrimination learning on spatial frequency detection tuning curves, obtained by a summation to threshold paradigm, has been investigated. Three human observers were exposed to a grating discrimination task for longer than two weeks, and their detection thresholds for compound Gabor gr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meinhardt G

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concepts of pattern dynamics and their adaptation through behavioral information, developed in the context of rhythmic movement coordination, are generalized to describe discrete movements of single components and the coordination of multiple components in discrete movement. In a first step we consider only one sp...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schöner G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different chaotic time series analysis methods--the correlation dimension and nonlinear forecasting--are introduced and then used to process the interspike intervals (ISI) of the action potential trains propagated along a single nerve fiber of the anesthetized rat. From the results, the conclusion is drawn that co...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gong Y,Xu J,Ren W,Hu S,Wang F

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of an electronic real time emulator for biology-inspired pulse processing neural networks (BPN) to recognition and temporal tracking of discrete impulse patterns via delay adaptation is demonstrated. The electronic emulation includes biologically plausible features, such as asynchronous impulses, membr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Napp-Zinn H,Jansen M,Eckmiller R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an introductory overview of the state of research on Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in cognitive development. First, a brief historical summary and a definition of hierarchies in Bayesian modeling are given. Subsequently, some model structures are described based on four examples in the literatur...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Glassen T,Nitsch V

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a complexity analysis of mutual information transmission of EEG developed by us [Xu J, Liu Z, Liu R, Yang Q (1997) Physica D 106: 363-374], dynamic processes of the complexity of mutual information transmission in human brains were studied. To diminish possible problems due to coarse graining preprocessing, s...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chen F,Xu J,Gu F,Yu X,Meng X,Qiu Z

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental identification of a non-linear biologic transducer is often approached via consideration of its response to a stochastic test ensemble, such as Gaussian white noise (Marmarelis and Marmarelis 1978). In this approach, the input-output relationship a deterministic transducer is described by an orthogona...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Victor JD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of power in different frequency bands of the electroencephalogram (EEG) carries information about the behavioral state of a subject. Hence, neurologists treating epileptic patients monitor the temporal evolution of the different bands. We propose a covariance-based method to detect and characterize epilepti...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Maidana Capitán M,Cámpora N,Sigvard CS,Kochen S,Samengo I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper introduces a theoretical frame-work for characterizing and classifying simple parallel algorithms and systems with many inputs, for example an array of photoreceptors. The polynomial representation (Taylor series development) of a large class of operators is introduced and its range of validity discussed. T...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Poggio T,Reichardt W

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of estimating an unknown transient signal, given an ensemble of waveforms, in which this signal appears as a nonrandom component in the presence of additive noise is considered. This problem is solved by generalizing the method of "a posteriori 'Wiener' filtering". In the new method, the ensemble average i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： de Weerd JP,Kap JI

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally held that the right and left middle ears of mammals are acoustically isolated from each other, such that mammals must rely on neural computation to derive sound localisation cues. There are, however, some unusual species in which the middle ear cavities intercommunicate, in which case each ear might be...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mason MJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem in neuroscience, to which Prof. Segundo has made seminal contributions, is to understand how action potentials represent events in the external world. The aim of this paper is to review the issue of neural coding in the context of the rodent whiskers, an increasingly popular model system. Key iss...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Petersen RS,Panzeri S,Maravall M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the dynamics of a system of coupled nonlinear oscillators that has been used to model coordinated human movement behavior. In contrast to earlier work we examine the case where the two component oscillators have different eigenfrequencies. Problems related to the decomposition of a time series (from an experi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fuchs A,Jirsa VK,Haken H,Kelso JA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a brief description of the main anatomical structures subserving the oculomotor responses during combined vestibular and optokinetic stimulations, a mathematical model is presented. With respect to a previous model by Schmid et al. (1980), a more accurate definition of the roles of the neural mechanisms involved...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Buizza A,Schmid R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier experimental studies by one of us (Kelso, 1981a, 1984) have shown that abrupt phase transitions occur in human hand movements under the influence of scalar changes in cycling frequency. Beyond a critical frequency the originally prepared out-of-phase, antisymmetric mode is replaced by a symmetrical, in-phase m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Haken H,Kelso JA,Bunz H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of a pair of cortical ocular dominance columns determines a basic anatomical module of V-1 which Hubel and Wiesel have termed the hypercolumn. Does this correspond to a basic functional, or psychophysically measurable, module as well? This is the basic question addressed in the present paper. Since the ocular...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yeshurun Y,Schwartz EL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A linear analogue network model is proposed to describe the neuronal circuit of the outer retina consisting of cones, horizontal cells, and bipolar cells. The model reflects previous physiological findings on the spatial response properties of these neurons to dim illumination and is expressed by physiological mechani...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yagi T,Ohshima S,Funahashi Y

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of the variability of neuronal spike timing is fundamental to gain understanding of latency coding. Based on recent mathematical results, we investigate theoretically the impact of channel noise on latency variability. For large numbers of ion channels, we derive the asymptotic distribution of latency, ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wainrib G,Thieullen M,Pakdaman K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multi-channel system of the segmental muscle stretch reflex arc is modelled as an arrangement of two or three parallel "component" loops coupled to each other at spinal and at muscle level. Such a model is thought to be more realistic than the usually adopted representation of the stretch reflex as a single negati...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Koehler W,Windhorst U

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning to make reaching movements in force fields was used as a paradigm to explore the system architecture of the biological adaptive controller. We compared the performance of a number of candidate control systems that acted on a model of the neuromuscular system of the human arm and asked how well the dynamics of...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bhushan N,Shadmehr R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the use of continuous dynamic models in the form of differential equations to describe and predict temporal changes in biological processes and discusses several of its important advantages over discontinuous bistable ones, exemplified on the stick insect walking system. In this system, coordinat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Daun-Gruhn S,Büschges A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the aspects involved in modelling a multi-robot system from a human motor control perspective. The human motor control system has a hierarchical and decentralised structure, and building a control system for a multi-robot system that attains human features would require a decomposable model. Decom...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kambhampati C,Rajasekharan S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pacemaker cell pair model and the dynamic interaction between the two pacemaker cells is described in this paper. It is an extension of our single pacemaker cell model, in which we studied its response to repetitive external depolarization stimulations. This model is a simple model based on the two most important fu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Abramovich-Sivan S,Akselrod S

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose an approach for desynchronization in an ensemble of globally coupled neural oscillators. The impact of washout filter aided mean field feedback on population synchronization process is investigated. By blocking the Hopf bifurcation of the mean field, the controller desynchronizes the ensemble. The technique...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Luo M,Wu Y,Peng J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With relative phase as a collective variable or order parameter, phase attractive dynamics can capture the temporally coherent behavior of a large number of different experimental systems. We present results from multifrequency coordination experiments in humans showing: a) that phase attraction persists especially fo...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： deGuzman GC,Kelso JA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion control of musculoskeletal systems for functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a challenging problem due to the inherent complexity of the systems. These include being highly nonlinear, strongly coupled, time-varying, time-delayed, and redundant. The redundancy in particular makes it difficult to find an inv...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Park H,Durand DM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study weakly connected networks of neural oscillators near multiple Andronov-Hopf bifurcation points. We analyze relationships between synaptic organizations (anatomy) of the networks and their dynamical properties (function). Our principal assumptions are: (1) Each neural oscillator comprises two populations of ne...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hoppensteadt FC,Izhikevich EM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00